Different market settings are considered in a free trade environment, where firms can choose technology, quality, and price of quantity. The shape of competition in prices requires the intervention of governments, via a common antidumping policy, to make firms converge on the simultaneous...

This paper is an extension of the Aghion and Howitt's model (1992). The new feature is that the qualification of the skilled labor force depends on the technology level in the economy. On the other hand, the R&D effort made in the economy depends upon the research sector's expectations about the...